On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:49:13 +0200 Marcin Mirosław wrote: > Hello list! > I'm playing with options min-spare,max-spare,min-children and > max-children, I'd like to save memory on my vps. So I'd like to have > one children awaiting for connection from MTA, when MTA receives more > emials in short time I'd like SA to spawn more children > (max-children=6). I thinks it's enough to have zero (or one) spare > children in my case. I'm starting spamd with such parameters: > ... --min-spare=0 --max-spare=1 -m 6
You can't use min-spare less than 1, if you do it gets adjusted to 1. spamd only adjusts the number of children when it's out of bounds. If you had min-spare=0 then a state with no spare children would be in bounds and there would be no mechanism to increase the number of children.
